This story contains language which you may find offensive. Wigan owner Dave Whelan has been given a £50,000 fine and six-week ban from all football-related activity for his comments about Jewish and Chinese people. Last month, Whelan accepted a charge but denied making racist remarks. The 78-year-old had requested a non-personal hearing from the Football [...]

31 December 2014 Last updated at 12:10 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Baroness Butler-Sloss said she was ‘not unsuitable’ for the job of chair Baroness Butler-Sloss has cautioned against giving victims too much influence over who runs the planned inquiry into historical child abuse. The retired judge, who stepped down as [...]

31 December 2014 Last updated at 15:37 Pauline Cafferkey is an associate public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre, South Lanarkshire Ebola patient Pauline Cafferkey is receiving an experimental anti-viral drug and blood from survivors of the disease, doctors in London have said. Specialists at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where the nurse is [...]

30 December 2014 Last updated at 12:28 Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne has said he will not take his bonus, following recent major rail disruption. Mr Carne was in line for a maximum bonus of £34,000, or around 5% of his £675,000 annual salary. Overrunning Christmas engineering work led to the closure of London [...]

30 December 2014 Last updated at 14:45 Pauline Cafferkey travelled to Sierra Leone in November A health worker who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone has arrived at a specialist treatment centre in London. Pauline Cafferkey, who flew to Glasgow via Casablanca and London Heathrow, was taken to the Royal [...]

30 December 2014 Last updated at 13:59 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. An Indonesian helicopter crew retrieved some of the bodies, as Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports Indonesian officials have confirmed that bodies and debris found in the Java Sea off Borneo are from AirAsia flight QZ8501 that went missing on Sunday, a [...]

29 December 2014 Last updated at 15:23 A Virgin Atlantic passenger plane “is preparing to implement a non-standard landing” at Gatwick airport because of “a technical issue with one of the landing gears”, the airline has said. Virgin said flight VS43 travelling from Gatwick to Las Vegas is returning to the West Sussex airport. The [...]

29 December 2014 Last updated at 12:54 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A BBC correspondent on board the flight says search teams saw oil slicks in the water The missing AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 is likely to be at the bottom of the sea, the head of Indonesia’s search-and-rescue agency has [...]

29 December 2014 Last updated at 15:12 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Exhausted and separated families are desperate to reunite, as James Reynolds reports The death toll following a fire on the Norman Atlantic ferry off Corfu has risen to seven, with the evacuation of all those on board now complete. [...]

28 December 2014 Last updated at 15:02 Passengers have made desperate calls for a speedy rescue Ships and helicopters are taking part in a major rescue operation after an Italian ferry carrying 478 people caught fire around 40 nautical miles north-west of Corfu. The Norman Atlantic was travelling from Patras in Greece to Ancona in [...]